I met BB backstage, many moons ago, at a gig my pop, Butch Trivette played in New Orleans . I walked in, and he and Pop were playing penny poker before the show.. Pop was the opening act. He introduced me to BB, who very eloquently, praised my pop's musical talent, and congratulated us both on Pop's recent Grammy nominations. Then he asked me if I played Poker (I did actually) and he asked me to join the game. I was so nervous, I sipped a bit of Pop's Southern Comfort and ended up running the table. You see, Pop had done his job at teaching me to play Poker (as well as pool) a looonngg time back, as he claimed musicians daughters should know these things. Pop was tickled (and well on his way to pickled) as I slipped another sip of his whiskey, then made him take it easy before his set. Work first, Whiskey later! Pop sulked a bit, but BB was impressed with my Poker skills and possibly, in hopes of helping to get Pop's mind elsewhere (coz he COULD be a handful!) BB ended up throwing me a 14k gold chain in the poker pot. I was so stoked!! Several years later, a male friend and I traveled from our home state of Georgia, to the Florida Theatre to see BB. He seemed to almost recognize me from the stage,and smiled that big, wonderful grin of his. I was just a few feet away and feeling all warm and fuzzy about it, as he threw another gold necklace out to me, then proceeded to throw 'em out to SEVERAL females. We were all so stoked!!! My friend told me on the way home, that BB did that often. It was a "BB thing." I thought it was probably the coolest (and quite expensive!) "gimmicks" I'd ever heard of. Though I wore those chains proudly for many years, I unfortunately, misplaced them or perhaps, sadly, lost them, over many years of life as a crazy, but magically-talented musician's daughter. But they'll be forever tucked away with the rest of my coolest memories of the adventures of Pop and I over the years. I learned a lot from him, and laughed a lot too. And that's worth more than all the gold in the world to me! 💛
BB was special man. The players player. The God of Gods. A God Amongst us Mere Mortals. Not many players can claim that title. BB was one of them though.
Joshua Dada you know who would’ve been great at doing sessions with anyone if he stayed alive? Stevie Ray Vaughan. He could go from screaming solo, to warm slowhand, to burning, and whenever he accompanied someone else soloing, he was pristine. My old guitar teacher used to say , you’re either a guitar player or a musician but never both.
@TheDCGuitar13 I saw SRV play on stage with BB King. SRV was extremely respectful, and that respect went both ways. Stevie just wanted to remain a few steps downstage from BB King, out of the spotlight. He was showing enormous respect for the King of the Blues. And BB insisted he move up to the front of the stage, to show his respect for Stevie's ability and his obvious love of the blues. BB said something about the torch of blues was being passed to a new generation, and it was in good hands. They both killed it that night. True class shown all the way by both parties. SRV’s torch was snuffed out 2 months later when his helicopter crashed after a concert in East Troy, Wisconsin.
Part of that is repetition. If there's a certain idea he wants to express, he simply repeats it twice, and matches the exact way he said it the first time around. This gives his voice a melodic sound tone. Dude's a genius if you ask me.
@@mixmixture7049 maybe it’s just respect never know not everyone is trying to be center of attention all the time nun wrong with playing in the background
I did a number of times.. I shook the royal hand at a gig in Bournemouth, he signed an autograph for me, gave me a pick and a little gold guitar. Utter legend.
"I don't know what the heck I was gonna do with that.... I missed all of them" -- No, Mr. King, you've had an amazing life, and the silent notes were filled with the sounds of a lifetime of music. Thank you for everything.
I think everyone needs to remember that BB King was 86 during this performance. Just like any old musician, seeing him at this age is a novelty more than anything. BB King was also never the most technical player either. He is renowned for his style. He was never a shredder.
You have to give credit and respect to the guys behind these icons jamming with them...They are equally fantastic otherwise you would not be playing with The King !
All the other guitar players be like "Hey BB look how far we've come since you you old dog!" And Slash be like "Here's why we love you for what you gave to us."
skategangster slash has always blues soul inside him, he plays a lot of a combination of major and minor pentatonic scale in his G n Rs solo. that's blues baby
Let's all understand something, blues isn't meant for showing off your chops. It wasn't created to play your fastest or to out do one another. It was created to ease pain, to vent your frustrations, to give you an outlet for your emotions. These guys aren't up there to to out do one another. They are there to put their emotions into notes. Slash could have thrown a pedal onto the floor and grabbed his sig Marshall and wah and shredded his 24 bars, but no what he did was this soft beautiful melodical arrangement of notes that served his particular needs. BB is a 4 note man. He usually expresses himself in for notes or less. This wasn't a competition, but a complimentary bout. Who could show more respect and compliment one of the fathers of blues the best. If this were a speed thing, then go get Yngwie. Stop dissing these musicians by saying "so and so kicked so and so's butt". This isn't about that at all.
Slash was one of my childhood heroes and a man i still look up to untill this day, and BB King was introduced to me at a very young age and i admire him the same. Amazing to see the two of them together, had no idea this performance existed.
fun fact, at 4:37 you can see a little boy looking bored and tired. thats me. i didnt appricaate the magitude of being there then but now im so happy my dad dragged me allong!
You lucky SOB! Hey, at least you appreciate it now. All of us experience that to some degree as we grow older. While we're on the topic of cool stories involving Slash, here's mine: Axl's manager invited me and my family backstage during one of their 2016 shows. It's a long story but in short, literally as she was on her way to collect us to take us back to Axl's hotel room for the post-party (where the real parties apparently go on), venue security kicked us out because they thought the band had left already. It is simultaneously the best and worst story ever. 🤣 I did get to meet Axl a few months later though during his tour with AC/DC and he was really nice, and I met Duff. I still hope to meet Slash some day.
Y'know. I realize Slash isn't generally seen as a Blues guitarist. But he was heavily influenced by it for GnR. He knows how to play the Blues, and he plays it damn well. Even BB King said "You play it like us old men do". He can play classic Blues, fucking good, too. He deserves to be there.
When I was young and first playing guitar I played heavy but as the years went by I realized that rock and metal came from the blues and now that's all I play.
In other words, rock and metal were too hard for you to play half-decently, so you switched to the blues. And you're barely able to do that now. Got it.
lambdaman common now, the blues is plenty hard, shut up and have some respect, guitar is a community of people and putting people down who play the same instrument as you is shameful, he can play whatever the hell he wants just as you can, aint no one gotta tell him what to do. Shame on you man, you know your probably aren’t too good yourself it’s always someone worse than you who will make fun of you, smh have a nice day
@@wmw4410 Read that story again and tell me you don't smell something fishy. Going back to the blues because that's where rock and metal came from? It's BS. You play what you like and are good at. I went from rock to blues precisely because it was easier to get a good sound and I still liked the music. You're rushing to the defense of a liar. smh
lambdaman naw not defending just saying how we should all respect each other’s choice of music to play, maybe it was just him getting older, how could I know, all I know is that we shouldn’t bash each other because of our skill, nothing more than that. I don’t see anything fishy just someone wanting to explore the roots ya know
C4hackz why is he not half as good as King though? they're both established players who achieved a lot in the music industry :b if i had to choose one of them I'd probably go with slash merely because of his style of music, then again his style evolved from blues and King is an influence on him, you can see on this video how much he respects him :)
That is what is so great about being an individual...you can pick and choose who you like the best! If we all thought alike..this world would be so freakin' boring... :) Slash is good..but the younger generation always build their style of playing from someplace :)
ozzy2k11 You see, I really don't want to offend you, I DO respect your opinion, but any guitar player can see that, even though Slash is an awesome player, BB's technique and style is waaaaaaayyyyy more complex than Slash's. Btw, he has greater experience not only on his career, but also on guitar playing. :) Anyway, Slash is incredibly good, I'm just giving my opinion of why B.B. is better (to me)
What so great about the blues? The same over and over and over. Any blues sound the same, doesn't they? Well, the blues has a beat that comes so close to the heartbeat of your mother, you laying there in the uterus, growing, waiting for that great exit in pain, the entrance to this beautiful world, full of pleasure as well of great horrors. Now, the lyrics, all about seduction and deceit producing the "blues" in us. There's so much simple truth in those lyrics that the blues turns irresistible. The "blues" guitar riffs are nothing more than an adornment framing the words of the lyrics that everybody should hang on the wall in their dwellings. #bbking #slash #blues
Hockey Jon it’s not so much that we’re not recognizing him as an awesome player in his own right, but you can clearly see BB cut him off a few seconds after BB told him to slow down. This was BB’s stage, and he overstayed his welcome. Compare it to the prodding an encouraging it took to get Slash to set off, and you can see who clearly had more respect for the man who invited them into his home.
+Marlon Borreo It's not Slash's style. Slash is fast and very much about hitting higher frets whereas this is BB Kings genre. Slash did a great solo and really complimented BB.
Billy Williams I think it was his goal too, but also he wanted, as I guess did the others, to not overshadow King or slip into rock power chords or high speed picking.
It was extraordinary to watch all these stars pay respect to a man who was part of the beginning of their music history. 80 years old!! Still playing the blues.
As a guitarist that also plays blues (among other styles), and one that could listen to those guys all day (Derek Trucks tone is amazing, and Tedeschi's got killer vocal chops), this was cool. As for why Slash seemed shy...perhaps because he knew he was around amazing talent, BB King and the others. I know as a musician, I can play. Yet, when I play with other guitarists who are awesome, I get shy, too. Maybe he was just trying to take it all in. Perhaps also, he was slightly out of his element. He doesn't play clean, mellow blues. He a hard rock blues-rocker. Slash is also used to Marshall stacks, not a row of squeaky clean Fender amps. Just my two cents...
The funny thing is that he's actually good at the blues when he gets in the groove. I mean, his playing is heavily blues-based to begin with. His jam with John Mayer was pretty good as I recall.
even though slash is a blues man at heart i can agree with ya, he's sitting next to THE KING and well, yeah he's still a big distortion power rock player, definitely out of his element.
3 Gibsons, An SG, a Les Paul and BB's personal "Lucille" ES-335. 2 Fender, a strat and a tele. An Ibanez BTB bass in the background. All beautiful instruments but it's the musicians behind them that make you feel. Each ne knows how their instrument behaves and each one brings out the best in that instrument. The greatest blues jam I've ever heard.
never thought the day would come that Ronny Wood would be referred to as an "other". for the kids out their, Ron Wood is in the rock and roll hall of fame twice. He was in two bands. The band Faces and another band called the Rolling Stones.
B.B. won my heart as a child. This will never change. To me, he's like Souza's Stars And Stripes Forever or Chubby Checker's "The Twist." These were my days as a fun-filled child.
It blows my mind BB is still out there jamming like this. I think most would agree there is nothing insanely impressive about any of the licks played but I enjoy it nonetheless as he just says and does what he wants on stage for as long as he wants. Nice video.
Donnie Watkins And he's got diabetes with peripheral neuropathy. You can play piano with neuropathy, but, boy, I just don't see how you can love a guitar like that.
Yes, Your Majesty you understand it. He hold back but he would play anyone away when he would. The comment of BB was not serious but some people over here take everything so serious because they think they have THE wisdom. newsflash you haven't look at it as people make fun with eachother. BB never should do negative in public to someone thats why i can tell he and Slash are joking.
R Es I also notice that Slash played to complement King's style, whereas the others were more like 'Look at me, King! I'm pretty impressive, aren't I?" Like they went too all out with it, getting way too fancy and shredding it instead of actually feeling it.
Exactly why else should BB "wake" him up? He is so in the music the others are more look at me. Listen good at Slash and you will discover a lot of blues in his regular play. He mentioned once in a interview that Blues was/is one of his inspirations.
B.B. the man on jazz. Love his music. He could be funny but yet strong in words. Seen him few times in concerts. Wow. Jammer. Play it papa. God bless B.B King
+K1llerkarotte I'm a Bassist and yet BB King will always be my greatest inspiration. From his unique playing style to one gem of advice that every musician should follow, "If you want to be great you have to practice".
